Re: system hangup - I'm lost - FreeBSD

This is a discussion on Re: system hangup - I'm lost - FreeBSD ; Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> I can't find anything on Intel's site that clues me in; all the PDFs
> are vague as far as what chips are on the board.
Have you tried the Product specifications?
http://download.intel.com/support/mo...254151-003.pdf
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It has 3 different Server Management busses. the temperature part is
handled within a Baseboard Management Controller. This BMC is implemented
using a DS82CL10.
Because it is a Server Board it offers a lot of managing features and
other nice things like serial console at bootup and system monitoring
features... but all unsupported withn FreeBSDs software

> P.S. -- You're the 2nd person I've encountered in under a week who's
> using 440BX/GX-based hardware in present day. I would not be
> surprised if the board is simply going bad/failing due to age. :-)

Hm - I'd wonder if this would be the case. I mean I'm using older
hardware (Tyan Tsunami S1830S, PII300, DAC960P, RAID-1 2*IBM DFHS S2W)
without any problems as router

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 06:53:09AM +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> > Because it is a Server Board it offers a lot of managing features and
> > other nice things like serial console at bootup and system monitoring
> > features... but all unsupported withn FreeBSDs software
>
> Really? That's interesting, because Charles Sprickman told me that
> there is no hardware monitoring information in the BIOS if you go in
> there. Most motherboards provide that in the BIOS as a centralised
> place above all else.

You are right - I could have sworn that there was such an screen in the
BIOS but all I can see is for setting up stuff like enabling eventlog and
posting it through a modem connection and so on - server specific stuff -
but no display screen for "health information"...
So you where right